Strong evidence that callous-unemotional traits are not related to risk-taking task performance.

ABSTRACT: A hypothesized association between callous-unemotional (CU) traits and risk-taking may account for the link between CU traits and real-world risky behaviors, such as illegal behavior. Prior findings show that reward and punishment responsivity differs in relation to CU traits, but is not associated with general risk-taking. However this has only been examined previously with one task, only with a frequentist framework, and with limited interpretation. Here, we expand to another task and to Bayesian analyses. A total of 657 participants (52% female) completed the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits, the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (essentially a gambling task), and the Stoplight driving task, which repeatedly presents participants with riskier or less risky choices to make while driving.

SUBMITTER: Centifanti LCM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5954327 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature